On May 8th, NYFA’s Los Angeles campus saw 165 degree students graduate. A virtual commencement ceremony was held for the graduating class of 2021 allowing students to collect their degrees and officially become NYFA alumni.
Commencement Speaker Camrus Johnson (Batwoman, The Sun is Also a Star) joined the graduation live and delivered an inspirational speech about how pursuing a career in the film industry is “risky, scary, can be frustrating, and how pursuing that dream makes a person not normal. It makes them extraordinary. That fighting for this goal, climbing for it, and falling down is worth it…as long as they pick themselves up and keep going.” And how, in no time, these students will be the ones holding for and hearing an applause.
NYFA Los Angeles also introduced its third student speaker Emma Daniels (BFA Acting), who addressed peers on this milestone achievement. Students also were shown a graduation video that was streamed during the ceremony.
BFA in 3D Animation & Visual Effects
Noura Alqubaisi
Angel Gradilla
Fangyuan Liu
Yuping Zeng
AFA in Acting for Film
Mariana Sanjuan
BFA in Acting for Film
Kristin AlNimri
Adlih Cristal Torres Alvarado
Austin Lee Barksdale
Georgia Alixandra Beam
John “Savage” Bention
Stephen Bennett Bleeker
Chloe Breen
Yu-Fang (Annie) Chang
William Collins
Emma Daniels
Iunia Georgiana Dinu
Milad El Doumani
Jérémie Boyamba
Alex Giarratano
Karolina Glazunova
Keoni Hall
Andre Heard
Jason Holland
Camila Jimenez Alvarado
Freda Yifan Jing
Salif Bobby Kone II
Benjamin Leder
Natasha Lewis
Yifangting Li
Ronaldo Madera
Tshepang Modise
Fenton Chavez-Montesino
Zach Morris
Jordan Nolen
Darcy Jeanette O’Toole
Aldana Pavicich
Kenneth Phillips
Willie Poole
Eduarda Fukuoka
Joshua Sanchez
Marie Solimena
Angelo Valotta Patino
Siphesihle Vilakazi
Dashun Latrell Worthen
Ari Zhaukhanova
MFA in Acting for Film
Frederick Scott Basnight II
Treyvon Hinson
Shermera Hughes
Melisa Lopez
Gimbals Moonier
Asaadhya Pal
Ya Qi
Charles E Savage
Rashvir Singh
AFA in Filmmaking
Jorge Abdou
BFA in Filmmaking
Qiao Ba
Timur Badanov
Thomas Barth
Lord Zeth Zander Black
Shivam Rajesh Dodhia
Veljko Dronjak
Rui Du
Ian Alec Franco
Joshua Fraser
Alessio Giurgola
Siyang Huang
Arnav Kasbekar
Bu Lu
Armaan Lucknowala
Robin Lyu
Kenneth Ma
Flaminia Mereu
Alice Nicolini
Junyao Ren
Filippo Savoia
Haoxi Tan
Nghi Tran Nguyen Hoang
Oliver Weinmann
MA in Film and Media Production
Ricardo Cruz
Muhammad Saram Dogar
Nidhi Jarmanwala
Da Lin
Dongyu Lu
Sabreen Taha
Sam Triplett
Daniela Cruz Yomayusa
Peiying Zhu
MFA in Filmmaking
Charles Hamilton Allen
Fernanda Belmar
Omar Fayek
Viviana Garibay Canavati
Anderson Grant
Sharan Gupta
Mohamed Gamil Ibraheem
Yao Ji
Marzin Muslim Khaidar
Sushmita Kohli
Chris Bixi Li
Gary L
Tsai-Yi Pan
Chi-Yang Victor Shao
Wei-Lin Shen
Wan Yi Shih
Justin Stapleton
Jiasheng Wang
Phillip Jeffrey WIlliams Jr.
Ziyan Zhu
BFA in Game Design
Jordan Barboza
Mi Diaz
BFA in Photography
Sabryna “Hunny” Flores
Abbey Friedman
Sophia Ortega
Carlos Alberto Pascal Zavala
Jeremy Rich
Xiaoyu ‘Kiko’ Yuan
MFA in Photography
Huaishu Fei
Shaokang Ji
Anqi Liu
Brian Thomas Myers
BFA in Producing
Oksana Chester
Shuotian Hu
Zhongyu Leng
Xue Ni
Bocong Sun
Jiani Zhou
MA in Producing
Adam Ferguson
Yifei Hong
Tuesday Lewis Harris
Guanhui Li
Mengmeng Lu
Yiwen Sun
MFA in Producing
Zhaolin Chen
Emerson Geter
Pengyifan “Erin” Lou
Joshua J. Mensah
Anna Szymanska
Anisha Thakur
Wenxin Yang
BFA in Screenwriting
David Avila Jr.
Babatunde Awe
Ian Brown
Malin Cantu
Aaron Herrera
Thomas J Horn
Lorenzo Elijah Hudson
Margot Kloster
Taylor Nichka
Angel Nnaemeka Ogwo
Stefanie Webb
Roberto Posada Panero
Rivka Shmuel
MFA in Screenwriting
Caleb Bloomer
André Luiz Dragoni da Costa
Almas Haidery
Courtney Kim
Owen Newberry
- Paolucci
Anna Pujolras
Charlotte Glen Quarrie
Jai Roberson
Lucas Romero
Federico Sanna
Xavier A. Vazquez
Eugene E. Williams
Zhao, Chao
New York Film Academy congratulates its graduates and wishes them continued success in their professional paths. We can’t wait to see what comes next!